30,000 selected links to as many as 400 different languages, plus the first internet library of multilingual parallel texts.

Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.

Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.

The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun.

Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.

A java applet to test your language skills in French, Spanish, German and Czech.

Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.

The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring the best language links the Web has to offer.

Searchable information on language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and computer tools, language study and pedagogy.

A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.